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Hearing Kana Hanazawa was first a nice thing. Then it gets even better as the male lead gets to speak - and it turns out Shintarou Asanuma is voicing him.
It's ZEGAPAIN all over again!

This should be more than enough to make me have a look at the first episode, especially since the trailer didn't look bad either. Yukari Tamura's character kind of killed the nice mood at the end though.
Thanks for posting the link, Iwanihana!

The first minute or so was quite strange for someone who hasn't read the novels. It's like... wait, isn't Shiika supposed to be one of the main characters? Is she dying?! No worries though, as she's back at the end of the episode. But that made for, at most, 2 minutes of Shiika in the whole episode, so some people might not be too happy (NeoSam?).

The episode introduced many characters just well. I hope I wasn't the only one who thought of Utawarerumono's Hakuoro after seeing some characters' masks. The other ones seem mysterious enough to interest you.
The reappearance of that BGM used in the second trailer posted before was wonderful. Here's hoping it gets reused at the right time. Nothing special to say about the OP or the ED... they both look good (though the OP has way too many bugs for my taste), but the music is imo rather forgettable.

Er, what's up with the preview though? They sure have some time to waste, drawing some totally random pictures to show something that doesn't even seem to be related to the show. Though it's much better to include the humor elements there, the mood was rather serious through the whole episode (if you don't count Daisuke's introduction to his new class).

The first great surprise of the season, I was starting to get worried.

Yeah, the trailer have already revealed that to us and since its coming from the same magazine and label that Suzumiya Haruhi came from, I was somehow expecting this to be good not Suzumiya Haruhi quality of anime but still pretty good animation.

I already want a second season

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Originally Posted by Katapan

Spoiler for very quick ep1 thoughts:

The first minute or so was quite strange for someone who hasn't read the novels. It's like... wait, isn't Shiika supposed to be one of the main characters? Is she dying?! No worries though, as she's back at the end of the episode. But that made for, at most, 2 minutes of Shiika in the whole episode, so some people might not be too happy (NeoSam?).

Damn it, only 2 minutes, I demand more Shiika now >.< I'll be checking this episode soon, but will only be happy in those 2 minutes where Shiika appears

Animation and music is decent, but damn some of the characters are quite annoying. The way they try to keep things serious then add out of place goofiness or humor makes it hard to peg this one. Anyway weird introduction episode to say the least but for Hitomi Nabatame I'll stick around for a couple of more.

It really made me think of a SHAFT version of My HiME. Very stylized, very good use of BGM, and some awkward humor sort of shoehorned into a couple places. Art and animation was rather nice. I always appreciate it when companies bother to make their CG at least somewhat mesh with the rest of what's going on.